2022-05-19, 11:48 PM
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Belarus banned Orwell's dystopia “1984”
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Bookstores in Belarus have received an order to withdraw from sale the dystopian novel “1984” by British writer George Orwell. The Belarusian edition “Nasha Niva” writes about this with reference to a copy of the order
“Remove from sale all versions of Orwell D. 1984″. The implementation will be announced no later than May 19,” the order says.
In the state network “Belkniga” Orwell's novel was on the 4th place in the list of bestsellers.
“A rare case for a book that was first published many decades ago. And a reflection of how people perceive the processes taking place in the country,” the publication reacted to the ban.
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The media did not specify who exactly issued this order. “Nasha Niva” added that on May 16, the main department for combating organized crime and corruption detained the publisher Andrei Yanushkevich after a search in the “Knigauka” bookstore.
200 books were confiscated from Yanushkevich. The special services focused on the shelves with the book “1984”.
The ban on the novel “1984” – do stores sell the book
Journalists from Zerkalo.io called bookstore chains Belkniga, Oz.by and Akademkniga. Belkniga said that they hadn't sold Orwell's books for a long time, and there are no plans to receive them. The novel is sold in the Oz.by bookstore chain, where they have not heard anything about the order to withdraw books from sale.
Some editions of “1984” have disappeared from the online store OZ.by after the publication of the ban.
The book “1984” is on sale in “Akademkniga” and will be there until the end of the week. Orwell is also sold in the Svetoch store of the Belkniga chain, and 1984 is presented in various editions. They also do not know about the requirements to remove the book from the shelves.
“We have not received such instructions. But if there is an order to shoot, it happens suddenly and quite quickly,” the store employee shared.
The Ministry of Information of Belarus did not comment on the ban on the sale of the novel “1984”.
Orwell's dystopia “1984” – what is the book about
George Orwell in his novel “1984” describes a totalitarian society whose inhabitants are deprived of civil rights and individuality. The book describes the personality cult of Big Brother. The quotes “War is peace”, “Freedom is slavery” and “Big Brother is watching you” became aphorisms.
In the Soviet Union and other totalitarian states of Eastern Europe, the book was forbidden to be sold until 1987. The first time the novel was translated into Belarusian by Sergei Shupa in 1992, when the first edition was published. In 2020, the novel was republished by Yanushkevich's publishing house, and an additional edition of the work was released in 2021.
In order to censor and fight fakes, Lukashenka suggested that the leaders of the countries of the Collective Security Treaty Organization take China as an example and restrict access to the Internet.
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Belarus banned Orwell's dystopia “1984”
Bookstores in Belarus have received an order to withdraw from sale the dystopian novel “1984” by British writer George Orwell. The Belarusian edition “Nasha Niva” writes about this with reference to a copy of the order
“Remove from sale all versions of Orwell D. 1984″. The implementation will be announced no later than May 19,” the order says.
In the state network “Belkniga” Orwell's novel was on the 4th place in the list of bestsellers.
“A rare case for a book that was first published many decades ago. And a reflection of how people perceive the processes taking place in the country,” the publication reacted to the ban.
The media did not specify who exactly issued this order. “Nasha Niva” added that on May 16, the main department for combating organized crime and corruption detained the publisher Andrei Yanushkevich after a search in the “Knigauka” bookstore.
200 books were confiscated from Yanushkevich. The special services focused on the shelves with the book “1984”.
The ban on the novel “1984” – do stores sell the book
Journalists from Zerkalo.io called bookstore chains Belkniga, Oz.by and Akademkniga. Belkniga said that they hadn't sold Orwell's books for a long time, and there are no plans to receive them. The novel is sold in the Oz.by bookstore chain, where they have not heard anything about the order to withdraw books from sale.
Some editions of “1984” have disappeared from the online store OZ.by after the publication of the ban.
The book “1984” is on sale in “Akademkniga” and will be there until the end of the week. Orwell is also sold in the Svetoch store of the Belkniga chain, and 1984 is presented in various editions. They also do not know about the requirements to remove the book from the shelves.
“We have not received such instructions. But if there is an order to shoot, it happens suddenly and quite quickly,” the store employee shared.
The Ministry of Information of Belarus did not comment on the ban on the sale of the novel “1984”.
Orwell's dystopia “1984” – what is the book about
George Orwell in his novel “1984” describes a totalitarian society whose inhabitants are deprived of civil rights and individuality. The book describes the personality cult of Big Brother. The quotes “War is peace”, “Freedom is slavery” and “Big Brother is watching you” became aphorisms.
In the Soviet Union and other totalitarian states of Eastern Europe, the book was forbidden to be sold until 1987. The first time the novel was translated into Belarusian by Sergei Shupa in 1992, when the first edition was published. In 2020, the novel was republished by Yanushkevich's publishing house, and an additional edition of the work was released in 2021.
In order to censor and fight fakes, Lukashenka suggested that the leaders of the countries of the Collective Security Treaty Organization take China as an example and restrict access to the Internet.
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